Istro-Romanian language - Istro-Romanian language Istro-Romanian is a Romance language spoken in a few villages in the peninsula of Istria, on the upper northern part of the Adriatic Sea, in Croatia by a population that calls themselves Vlaşi or Rumâni, but called Ciribiri by the local population and Istrian Vlachs by the linguists. Currently the number of speakers being estimated to only about 500, being listed on The UNESCO Red Book of Endangered Languages as Seriously Endangered, but due to the very small population speaking it there is no education nor press in this language and in Croatia they aren't even recognised as a minority. Many villages have Romanian words as names like Jeian, Buzet (lips), Katun (hamlet), Gradinje (Garden), Letaj, Sucodru (forest), Costirceanu (Romanian name). Language The language resembles.
Taxi (Romanian band) - Taxi (Romanian band) Taxi are a Romanian pop-rock band. Their sound is an eclectic mix of rock and contemporary pop, occasionally introducing other influences such as hot Nashville-style guitar licks. The band was founded March 13, 1999 in Bucharest. Dan Teodorescu, songwriter, lead vocalist and the band's leader, first recruited Adrian Bortun (with whom he had previously played in "Altceva" ("Something Else"). Bortun recruited his former bandmate Andrei Barbulescu from "Sarmalele Reci" ("Cold Sarmalele"; sarmalele are meat rolls with cabbage); Dan recruited Georgica Patranoiu with whom he had also played before. Their first Romanian hit was "Criogenia salveaza Romania" ("Cryogenia saves Romania") which gained them fans even among the members of the Romanian Parliament with its ironic political lyrics. Hai să ne băgam cu toţii-n niste frigidere.
Aromanian - number is estimated to about one or two million. They speak a Romance language called Macedoromanian which is a close dialect of Romanian. Due to the common language foundation, historians believe that the language link with Romania was interrupted between the 7th and 9th century, after the most important features of the language were formed. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Aromanians in Greece 2 Aromanians in Albania 3 Aromanians in Romania 4 Aromanians in Macedonia 5 See also 6.
Aromanian language - eastern group of the Romance languages. It is considered to be either a Romanian dialect or a separate language. The language is similar to the Romanian language, but with some small differences. Macedoromanian is spoken by the Aromanian or Vlach minority in Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, but also in parts of Albania, Serbia, Bulgaria and Greece. Greek and Bulgarian influence are much stronger than in other East Romance languages. Still the lexical composition remains mainly Romance. Just like in Romanian, the morphology disagrees more with other descendants of Latin. The article is put to the end of the word; both definite and indefinite articles can be declined. The noun has not only masculine and feminine, but also common (or neuter) gender. On the other hand, the sequence of tensess is.
Vedea - 33 km the river is regulated. It flows in the Olt and Teleorman counties and the towns Alexandria and Roşiori de Vede are near the river. Vedea is the infinitive of the verb "to view" in Romanian..
Kingdom of Romania - not to survive World War II. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Unification and monarchy 1.1 Timeline 2 The interbellum years 2.2 Timeline Unification and monarchy The 1859 ascendancy of Alexander John Cuza as prince of both Moldavia and Wallachia under the nominal suzerainty of the Ottoman Empire united an identifiably Romanian nation under a single ruler. In 1862 the two principalities were formally united to form Romania, with Bucharest as its capital. On February 23, 1866 a so-called Monstrous coalition, composed of Conservatives and radical Liberals, forced Cuza to abdicate. The German prince Carol (Charles) of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen was appointed as Prince of Romania, in a move to assure German backing to unity and future independence. His descendants were to serve as the kings of Romania until the rise of the communists.
Kronstadt - in the Gulf of Finland, site of the Kronstadt rebellion. The Saxon citadel that is now the Romanian city of Braşov..
January 15 - Libya. 1973 - Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, President of the United States Richard Nixon announces the suspension of offensive action in North Vietnam. 1975 - Portugal grants independence to Angola. 1974 - Happy Days premiers on ABC. 1976 - Would-be Gerald Ford presidential assassin Sara Jane Moore is sentenced to life in prison. 1992 - The Federal Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia ceases to exist. Slovenia and Croatia gain independence. 1998 - The stalker of Howard Stern, Lance Carvin, is sentenced to 2 1/2 years for threatening to kill Stern and his family. 2001 - Wikipedia, a Wiki free content encyclopedia, goes online (Wikipedia Day). Births 1432 - King Afonso V of Portugal (†1481) 1622 - Molière, French playwright (†1673) 1791 - Franz Grillparzer, Austrian lyricist (†.
January 26 - at Charles, Prince of Wales in Sydney, Australia. 1996 - Whitewater scandal: Hillary Rodham Clinton testifies before a grand jury. 1998 - Lewinsky scandal: On American television, Bill Clinton denies he had "sexual relations" with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky. 1998 - Compaq buys Digital Equipment Corporation. 2001 - A 50-year-old Douglas DC-3 crashes near Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela killing 24. 2001 - An earthquake hits Gujarat, India, causing more than 20,000 deaths. Births 1781 - Achim von Arnim, poet (†1831) 1826 - Louis Favre, engineer Gotthard tunnel (†1879) 1826 - Julia Dent Grant, First Lady of the United States 1831 - Mary Mapes Dodged, writer (†1907) 1880 - Douglas MacArthur, general (†1964) 1901 - Stuart Symington, politician (†1988) 1904 - Ancel Keys, scientist 1905 -.
January 9 - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine) 1924 - Julián B Coco, guitarist, bassist 1925 - Lee Van Cleef, actor (†1989) 1925 - Abdelhamid Benhadugah, novelist 1928 - Judith Krantz, author 1928 - Domenico Modugno, musician 1929 - Heiner Muller, dramatist (†1995) 1929 - Dorothea Puente, American serial killer 1931 - Algis Budrys, science fiction author 1931 - Geoffrey Wragg, British reorganizer 1933 - Sonia Garmers, author 1934 - Bart Starr, American football star 1935 - Bob Denver, actor 1935 - Dick Enberg, sportscaster 1935 - Kenneth 'Buddy' Scott, blues guitarist, singer 1936 - Peter Fletcher, music teacher 1937 - K Schlesinger, writer 1937 - Judith Krantz, author 1938 - Aad Kosto, theologian, actor, assistant Secretary of Justice of the Netherlands 1940 - Jimmy Boyd, actor, singer 1940 - Barbara.
Jeanne Sauvé - in recognition of major and sustained efforts made on behalf of refugees. This was the first time since the medal's inception in 1954 that the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees presented it to an entire population. The Nansen Medal is kept at Rideau Hall. Mme Sauvé's enthusiasm for the value of sports led her to establish the Jeanne Sauvé Trophy for the world cup championship in women's field hockey. She also created the Jeanne Sauvé Fair Play Award to recognize national amateur athletes who best demonstrate fair play and non-violence in sport. She also encouraged a safer society in Canada by establishing the Governor General's Award for Safety in the Workplace. During her term as Governor General, Mme Sauvé made State visits to Italy, the Vatican, the People's Republic of.
Jean Negulesco - 1900, Craiova - July 18 1993) was a Romanian born film director. In 1915 he run to Vienna, but in 1919 return to Bucharest as a painter, then he worked as a stage decorator in Paris. In 1927 he came to New York for an exhibition of his paintings and remained there. In 1934 he entered the movie industry, first as a sketch artist then as an assistant producer, second unit director and in the late 1930s he became a director and screenwriter. His first directed movie was Singapore Woman in 1941. In 1948 he was nominated for Academy Award for Directing for Johnny Belinda. Filmography The Invincible Six (1970) Hello-Goodbye (1970) The Pleasure Seekers (1964) Jessica (1962) The Best of Everything (1959) Count Your Blessings (1959) The Gift of Love.
Jiang Zemin - at the Stalin Automobile Works in Moscow in the 1950s. Considered very urbane and worldly for a Chinese Communist leader, the former Ambassador to Romania and Mayor of Shanghai, China's most cosmopolitan city, is fluent in Romanian and Russian; and capable of engaging foreign dignitaries with his grounding in Japanese, French, and English language and literature. Ascendancy Jiang was a compromise candidate chosen by Deng Xiaoping, Li Peng, Chen Yun, and the retired elders on March 27, 1993 to replace the more liberal Zhao Ziyang, who was considered too conciliatory to student protestors. Although not directly involved with the crackdown, he was elevated to central party positions after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 for his role in averting similar protests in Shanghai. At the 16th Party Congress, the then 76-year-old.
John F. Kennedy International Airport - Terminal was the sole terminal until construction of the rush. 1957 International Arrivals Building, which was itself replaced by the $1.4B Terminal 4 in 2001. Eight other "Unit Terminals" were constructed 1958-1971. Replacements for some of the original terminals have been completed or are under development. There are also numerous large facilities for air cargo handling and loading. In 1998, the airport began construction of a light-rail system called the AirTrain, designed ultimately to link JFK's passenger terminals to New York City's general mass transit system. After over a year of delay, caused by the death of an employee during testing, the system opened on December 17, 2003. Terminal 1 Aeromar Air China Air France Alitalia Austrian Airlines Japan Airlines Korean Air Lufthansa Olympic Royal Air Maroc Turkish Airlines (THY) Virgin.
John Hunyadi - John Hunyadi (Iancu Corvin de Hunedoara in Romanian, János Hunyadi in Hungarian) (c. 1387—1456), Transylvanian statesman and soldier, was the son of Voicu (Vojk), a Magyarized Romanian who married Elizabeth (Erzsébet) Morzsinay. He derived his family name from the small estate of Hunyad (Hunedoara in Romanian), which came into his father’s possession in 1407. The later epithet Corvinus, adopted by his son Matthias was originated from the Coat of Arms of the family which showed a raven (corvus in Latin). (The Silesian Annals state that when a raven carried off the ring King Matthias had removed from his finger, Matthias chased the bird down and slew him, retrieving the ring, and in commemoration of this event he took the raven as a symbol for his signet sign. Others think that the.
John Houseman - 22, 1902 - October 31, 1988) was a Romanian-born actor, best known for his Oscar-winning role as Professor Charles Kingsfield in the 1973 film The Paper Chase, a role which he reprised in the television series of the same name. He was born as Jacques Haussmann in Bucharest. Houseman was also a producer. For example, he co-produced Orson Welles's infamous 1938 radio broadcast The War of the Worlds. He died at the age of 86 from cancer..
June 20 - († 1984) 1909 - Errol Flynn, actor († 1959) 1924 - Chet Atkins, country guitar player 1931 - Martin Landau, actor 1931 - Olympia Dukakis, actress 1936 - Danny Aiello, actor 1940 - John Mahoney, actor 1940 - Eugen Drewermann, theologian 1941 - Ilse Ritter, actress 1941 - Ulf Merbold, physicist and astronaut 1942 - Brian Wilson, bass player and singer for The Beach Boys 1945 - Shekhar Mehta, racer, winner of the Safari Rally 1945 - Anne Murray, singer 1946 - Bob Vila, handyman 1949 - Lionel Richie, musician 1952 - John Goodman, actor 1953 - Cyndi Lauper, singer 1967 - Nicole Kidman, actress 1982 - Michael Miller, civil rights activist Deaths 1597 - Willem Barentsz, navigator, dies in the Arctic 1787 - Karl Friedrich Abel, German baroque composer 1837.
June 15 - Erroll Garner, jazz musician (+ 1977) 1928 - Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt, behaviorist 1932 - Mario Cuomo, former Governor of New York 1937 - Waylon Jennings, singer (+ 2002) 1938 - Billy Williams, baseball star 1939 - Brian Jacques, author 1941 - Harry Nilsson, singer, composer (+ 1994) 1943 - Xaviera Hollander, prostitute, author 1943 - Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, Prime Minister of Denmark 1948 - Mike Holmgren, American football coach 1949 - Dusty Baker, baseball player, coach 1954 - James Belushi, actor 1958 - Wade Boggs, baseball player 1963 - Helen Hunt, actress 1964 - Courteney Cox, actress 1969 - Ice Cube, singer, actor 1969 - Oliver Kahn, German football goalkeeper 1971 - Edwin Brienen, Dutch director 1973 - Neil Patrick Harris, actor Deaths 923 - Robert I of France 1381 - Wat.
June 2003 - fires its manager, Vicente Del Bosque Hundreds of US troops raid Iraqi homes in the town of Ramadi, fired up by the Ride of the Valkyries coming through loudspeakers, in a scene which Reuters reporter Alistair Lyon describes as "a bizarre musical reprise from Vietnam war film Apocalypse Now." Meanwhile a group identifying itself as the Iraqi National Front of Fedayeen announces to increase attacks on US troops if they refuse to leave the occupied country. [1] June 21, 2003 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the English edition of the fifth installment to the Harry Potter series, starts selling worldwide. J K Rowling did a reading at the Albert Hall, London a few days later. June 20, 2003 The Christian Science Monitor apologises to George Galloway for falsely.
Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2003 - FYR of Macedonia (Macedonian) Marija & Viktorija Ti ne me Poznavas (I want to be your Friend) 12 19 Greece (Greek) Nicolas Ganopoulos Filoi gia Panta (Friends Forever) 8 53 Latvia (Latvian) Dzintars Čiča Tu esi Vasarā (You are in Summer) 9 37 Malta (English) Sarah Harrison Like a Star 7 56 Netherlands (Dutch) Roel Mijn ogen zeggen alles (My Eyes Say Everything) 11 23 Norway (Norwegian) 2U Sinnsykt gal Forelsket (Madly Crazy in Love) 13 18 Poland (Polish) Katarzyna Żurawik Coś mnie nosi (Something Makes me Bustle About) 16 3 Romania (Romanian) Bubu & Co Tobele Sunt Viata Mea (Drums are my Life) 10 35 Spain (Spanish) Sergio Desde el cielo (From Heaven) 2 125 Sweden (Swedish) The Honeypies Stoppa mig! (Stop me!) 15 12 United Kingdom (English) Tom.
